Rivera v. Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc.

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Christopher J. Burns, J.), entered on or about June 17, 2004, which, in an action for personal injuries sustained in a slip and fall on defendant’s premises, insofar as appealed from, granted defendant’s motion for a new trial on the issue of future pain and suffering unless plaintiff stipulated to reduce the jury’s award therefor from $362,500 to $40,000, unanimously modified, on the law and the facts, to increase the amount to which plaintiff must stipulate in order to avoid a new trial on future pain and suffering to $200,000, and otherwise affirmed,…